Personal helper bot system

Abstract

MyBOTS.Tv—the personal helper BOT system utilizes a customizable personal assistant in the form of an avatar to engage its owner in a conversational manner with natural language commands to coordinate activity of a team of autonomous helper BOTs. Among a variety of other tasks, BOTs, which are software applications that run automated tasks over the Internet, collaborate to create the owner's schedule, maintain his/her to-do list, obtain personally interesting information, provide personalized services and searches, perform web site transactions, use all types of web apps, complete tasks and/or synthesize useful products for their owners.

In some embodiments, the helper BOTs system leverages Digital Library (DL) Architectures to house elements that they intelligently serve. The underlying Digital Library Architecture features an induction process that elicits facts about incoming elements that can be judged by a panel of agents. Agents judge elements according to areas of discretion which are of interest to the consumer population. The judgments are then stored as part of each element's metadata. Helper BOTs then deliver the elements intelligently by probabilistically ranking, sorting, classifying, and/or presenting and serving them to users in accordance with value preferences indicated in their profiles. One such embodiment, (which has been previously published as a Virtual Knowledge Architecture for Interactive Television) ranks and serves TV programs to people based on the value preferences set in their profile(s).

In other embodiments, helper BOTs leverage user-directed search paradigms to refine and customize the search function according to the searcher's preferences, style and demographic information. In these embodiments, helper BOTs are directed by way of a search construction wizard to return search results in accordance with searcher profiles and demands such as language, context of content, age of document, and age appropriateness. In this regard, searcher preferences refer not only to the search itself, but to the style, presentation, and appropriateness of the search results which can not only be a list of links but delivered as synthesized living document products incorporating new media elements.

Some helper BOT embodiments will help people to perform financial transactions requiring highly sensitive and personal information such as credit card numbers, bank account information and the like. These embodiments require the use of BOT security. BOT security will utilize x.509 digital certificate technology assigned to the avatar by its human owner. The cryptographic key will be utilized to perform all related transactions and protect any information deemed sensitive on behalf of its owner in a secure manner through secure network tunnels.

Further embodiments enable an extensible set of commercially available BOTs to be obtained on the MyBOTs.Tv web site in the BOTS Store. This has begun with the 12 “EmBOTiments” presented here. These BOTs perform individual tasks autonomously but may also work in collaboration with each other. Each BOT processes inputs and can be parameterized. Hence, a BOT API enables the creation of stored programs that capture the teamwork interaction and makes their function re-usable. An extensible grammar makes it possible for the evolving baseline of useful stored programs to be called by name so that BOT teams can be dispatched by the user's avatar on demand.

Description

FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0001]The present invention relates to intelligent systems, particularly for classes of applications that pertain to intelligent automated assistants, autonomous agents, digital libraries, search engines and BOTs.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]Today it seems we separate the platforms by which we experience passive entertainment activities from interactive computing applications and activities. The United States ranks the highest among other countries in the amount of time that is spent by individuals watching television. In addition, it is also ranked the lowest among same countries as far as the average score by 12th graders on standardized tests. There is a strong hint that there is some correlation between the two. If Interactive Television however, provided channels with seamlessly integrated applications and computing services, and it became the platform by which our students synthesized reports, conducted research, or could easily satisfy a request to i...

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Benefits of technology

[0008]According to various embodiments of the present invention, the personal helper BOT system coordinates the individual activities of autonomous web robots (each of which specializes in its own function) such that the net effect is teamwork and the owner's ultimate personal help solution. In short, the goal here is foremost to assist by offloading the task from the user before finding ways to assist the user with the task.

Problems solved by technology

Although there has been some progress with set top boxes and gaming interfaces, Cable TV channel selection interfaces and guides don't offer much in the way of integrated interactive applications and services the way smart phones do.

However, today's search engines do not permit a dynamic, flexible, and/or personalized process.

As the number of applications we use increases with, as many consumer devices, smart phones, tablet computers, and the like, that are able to run software applications to perform various tasks and provide different types of information, the ability for use

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